The suspect, a former U.S. Marine Corps reservist, is accused of joining 11 others in an organized attack against officers at the Prairieland Detention Center.
ALVARADO, Texas — A 12th suspect has been charged in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer on July during an “ambush” at the Prairieland Detention Center, officials say.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Benjamin Hanil Song, a former U.S. Marine Corps reservist, joined 10 others in an organized attack against police officers that night.
Officials have charged Song with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in a violent crime.
Song has still not been apprehended. The FBI has deemed him a wanted individual and advises to consider him armed and dangerous.
Song is accused in the complaint of having bought four of the guns found in connection with the shooting, including two AR-style rifles.
11 of the suspects charged Monday fled the scene but were later arrested by responding officers, but officials say Song wasn’t found by police that night. Location data associated with Song’s phone reportedly shows his phone was within several hundred meters of the detention center that night until after dark on July 5.
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